I was broker than this when this song dropped. It still means the world to me today - even though things got better. This song helped me get through. love FOTC
@@StanSays going to a corner shop and having to count out coins in front of the clerk, in this case to simply buy some muesli. its hilarious (to me at least) that its said in such a serious way but when you think, its just a a weird guy counting out pennies for 30mins to buy some cereal. and not even GOOD cereal.
@@anglaismoyen I mean "best" is subjective, I don't dislike Muesli on merit but because of how hard it is on the teeth... assuming we're both talking about the same granola-like cereal. its okay in yogurt I guess???
I was literally going through a crazy late 20s run when this dropped. After being a relatively happy and successful young lady it all just fell to shit. I watch the 2 DVDs everyday while getting better. I'm now a manager at a major bank, have kids and things are OK. FOTC ALL THE WAY thank you for the creativity
"Check your mind-- how'd it get so bad? What happened to those other underpants you had?" I discovered FOTC just a few days ago, and have been walking around grinning ever since; I haven't encountered anything so perfectly hilarious in years.
@BlackCapped Chickadees Well, I've recently changed my name to Mel and have been carrying a picture of Jemain's lips in my wallet. I think my family may be staging an intervention soon.
Standing in the sitting room… (lol) You want to sit down (it’s a sitting room!) but you sold your chair so You just stand there. This entire concept is genius. This whole song is genius.
I do a lot of thrift store shopping. You can find some amazing deals and surprises! I don't buy my underwear there, but I considered it. /does not work in high-finance.
Wow, I still haven't watched this show but me and my friends when we were still in primary school just used to love listening to these. I definitely didn't acknowledge how much of a bonafide banger this song in particular is!
"Counting coins on the counter at the 7-11, From a quarter past six to a quarter to seven, The manager, Bevin, starts to abuse me, Hey man, I just want some Museli."
The auto-generated captions: "Gila City Villa City Russia. in a decision, yeah dizzy. get up in a city in a city fresh shot. it up in a season get up city fresh. in a city this is depression." Pretty accurate
I have seen this numerous times and just as amazed as if I was watching it for the first time again. The nailed it... and I LMAO at 2:17 ...someone needs to put that on a Tee Shirt!
I would really love to know if the Pet Shop Boys have heard this and if so, what they thought of it. It's just so brilliant, one of my favorite FOC songs.
@@Robotoda2000 Why did you need to clarify to him that it was a west end girls parody? He very clearly already knew, hence him mentioning pet shop boys.
"You pawned everything, everything you own, your toothbrush jar & a camera phone, you wanna sit down but you sold your chair, so you.....you just stand there.....You just stand therrrrre". Lol.
Beautiful pet shop boys like song, really love the home organ drum machine! Remind me of when I as a poor student tried to make hits like this programming drum tracks on my commodere 0/vic20….
What makes this funny is that they're talking about second hand underwear and pawning a toothbrush and yet they hold onto the vintage Minimoog which is worth $10000 at this point. I don't recognize the other one though.
Rhombus Labs It's just an Minimoog, it's worth for about 2000 to 4000 $. Even then no one who owns a Minimoog would want to part ways with it. The other one is Korg MS2000, which is like the big brother of Microkorg. Worth less than 500 $.
Too late to this show. I spend each episode song trying to work out the 2-3 songs they’re parodying. This one was the most obvious and my favourite…. So far… not started season 2 yet
@ I’ve literally just rewatched West End Girls. You have to TH-cam it! The video, the beat, the synth, the vocal style. Cmon my friend. Yes, flight of the conchords is original songs, but parodying the best of each genre. You surely understand that?
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Rhyming “Abuse me” with “Muesli” is a level of genius that the Petshop Boys could never hope to reach.
Or rhyming prostitute with flute.
High finance and second hand underpants. 😙🤌
Straight-up fighting words right there... but also 100% respectable. 😂
In all honesty, it sounds like a rhyme most elementary school kids could devise.
@@glenncarlson7293your opinion is full of lies if you think that’s a rhyme minors could devise
"no one cares, nobody sympathises,
So you just stay home and play synthesizers"
I've been there.
best line in popular music anywhere and ever
😂
Do play with trackers count?
We all have man….we all have
I've lived mostly in urban Chicago and LA and this is very accurate. I'm always buying used underpants to save money for flute lessons.
Looks like you'll never be a concert flautist
What happened to those other underpants you had
I was broker than this when this song dropped. It still means the world to me today - even though things got better. This song helped me get through. love FOTC
Did you become a concert flautist?
Did you manage to get your muesli?
How them second hand underpants holding up
You were watching HBO when you were broke?
Did you just stand there?
YOU JUST STAAAAAND THEEERE!
Stand THERE!
The woman on the bridge gets me every time 😂😂
😂😂😂
Every time!😂
The Pet Shop Boys style in this song is amazing!
lol yeah it's basically a cover of "west end girls"
@@BassHeadsProduction parody
@@BassHeadsProduction PARODY*
I was getting Bristol scene / Massive Attack vibes
Thanks. I was trying to place the song they copied.
Everything about this song is just legendary. From the lyrics to the pronunciations to the instrumentals... its just perfect. Timeless art.
The whole show was art
Shanard Smith ikr
And the transition between the scene and the song.
You know its West End Girls right?
I believe most of these songs are parodies of originals. Like this one is west end girls parody 😂🔥💯
Counting coins on the counter of the 7-11, from a quarter past six to a quarter seven.. is such genius.
I don't get it could you explain
Hey man I just want some muesli
@@StanSays going to a corner shop and having to count out coins in front of the clerk, in this case to simply buy some muesli. its hilarious (to me at least) that its said in such a serious way but when you think, its just a a weird guy counting out pennies for 30mins to buy some cereal. and not even GOOD cereal.
@@charlesnelthorpe9252 wtf muesli is the best cereal. What do you consider good cereal?
@@anglaismoyen I mean "best" is subjective, I don't dislike Muesli on merit but because of how hard it is on the teeth... assuming we're both talking about the same granola-like cereal.
its okay in yogurt I guess???
West End Girls was my favourite song for years when I was a kid. I recognized its influence in this immediately.
You Sir, are a connoisseur!
I applaud your taste. I'm a big Pet Shop Boys fan myself, which makes this song that much funnier.
It seems some on this timeline are unaware of these guys paying homage to artists they grew up with! Whoosh!
you have a good hearing; do you really think...
no flies on you, are there?
“You walk across the street, you don’t know why you did, you walk back across the street” 😂😂
The chicken put one foot infront the the other and crossed over the street.- from Compulsion by Martin Gore. ☮️🖖🎶
You just stand thereeeee
Sums up West End Girls perfectly.
after I turned 40 this started happening more and more
i still sing that bit every now and then to cheer myself up
The best part is that all that music equipment is worth thousands
Yeah but no one cares, no one sympathizes, you just stay home and play synthesizers.
Fortunately Behringer allows me be broke and stay at home playing synthesizers. I have to wear second hand underpants though
@@snag1508Behringer truly is the people’s company
Just one of many nights where I wake up randomly and this video is in my head. Going on 13 years strong now and love it each time it happens lol
This song was nominated for an Emmy!
its a good thing
that was just a pencil sharpener with a sticker on it
I was literally going through a crazy late 20s run when this dropped. After being a relatively happy and successful young lady it all just fell to shit. I watch the 2 DVDs everyday while getting better.
I'm now a manager at a major bank, have kids and things are OK. FOTC ALL THE WAY thank you for the creativity
One of their best tracks. I think about this song a lot day to day
Took me years to find out this is influenced by West End Girls by the Pet Shop boys. So good!
Isn't it obvious from the get go?
@@cascade3769 It probably isn't if you haven't heard West End Girls.
"Check your mind-- how'd it get so bad?
What happened to those other underpants you had?"
I discovered FOTC just a few days ago, and have been walking around grinning ever since; I haven't encountered anything so perfectly hilarious in years.
@BlackCapped Chickadees Well, I've recently changed my name to Mel and have been carrying a picture of Jemain's lips in my wallet. I think my family may be staging an intervention soon.
May I recommend you look up Tom Cardy? He's a comedic songwriter, very similar to FoTC. He even covered Carol Brown!
One of a kind. When I first discovered it years ago, I'd torrent and watch the episodes over and over.
Welcome to the club, loser! These guys are incredible
He pawned the "camera phone" Bret made him. 😂
Which was just a camera glued to a phone, rendering both devices useless :p I love these guys so much
Bret made the camera phone for jemaine
@@MelodyTCG There.
€10k analog hardware at the end is a punchline to whole song setup that gets me every time!
Hahahaha. When Jemaine is going to spit it out but doesn't, that was good fun. Geniuses.
Standing in the sitting room… (lol)
You want to sit down (it’s a sitting room!) but you sold your chair so
You just stand there.
This entire concept is genius. This whole song is genius.
"You know you're not in high-finance, considering second-hand underpants"
Brendan Cohen cracks me up every time!!!
Truer words have never been spoken.
I do a lot of thrift store shopping. You can find some amazing deals and surprises! I don't buy my underwear there, but I considered it.
/does not work in high-finance.
One of the all-time best lyric lines, lol. So good.
Whenever I need a guaranteed mood lift, I come to YT and watch Flight of the Conchords.
YES!
The manager "Beven" starts to abuse me. Hey man i just want some musli.....gold.
Muesli
best part
One of my favorite lyrics of all time
... Because Stewarts don't run seven elevens... Only play cricket!
“I was gonna spit it out, but I think I’ll just eat it…” hahahaha poor problems. My guy.
"You just stand there"
😂😂😂😂
"You just stand theeeeerrrrrree"
"You wanna sit down but you sold your chair. So you.....You just stand there".....YOU JUST STAAAND THEEEERE".
"When you're unemployed there's no vacation.” If there are truer words, I've not heard them.
"just stay home and play synthesizers" as if i could afford a synth
Wow, I still haven't watched this show but me and my friends when we were still in primary school just used to love listening to these.
I definitely didn't acknowledge how much of a bonafide banger this song in particular is!
You want to sit down, but you pawned your chair
So you just………….you just stand there…🤣🤣🤣
Looks like you'll never be a concert flautist!
I almost spilled my coffee
"Counting coins on the counter at the 7-11,
From a quarter past six to a quarter to seven,
The manager, Bevin, starts to abuse me,
Hey man, I just want some Museli."
the bass line on this is so good
I heard this song before I heard West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys, I feel like this is a total homage to that song
Try watching the music videos side by side
@@Miksarxe very cool, several visual references too!
This has that West End Girls rhythm and beat talking, singing, down pat. ☮️🖖🎶
That's because it is.
@@lune78 i mean its obvious to me now but never having really heard the verse to west end girls before this really took me by surprise at first
"I was just reading about the toothbrush fence. Their upto 50 Brushes! ....pretty impressive huh"
They nailed the monotone pet shop boys delivery
Just a couple of days ago, while re-listening Goldie, it clicked why "Inner city life/inner city pressure" sounded so familiar :)
The auto-generated captions:
"Gila City Villa City Russia.
in a decision, yeah dizzy.
get up in a city in a city fresh shot.
it up in a season get up city fresh.
in a city this is depression."
Pretty accurate
It still hasn't changed
Hahahahahahaha turned em on see it!
Oh my god 😭😭
Oh man, this song is still SO funny after all this time!
We need to boy Brit a tscheir, so he can sit down.
No one cares, no one sympathizes
You just stay home and play synthesizers
Cant believe its about 10 years already since i was listenings to their songs. Still great and very funny.
Absolutely fallen in love again❤❤❤ With this😂
Wow I forgot about this. Brings back memories of watching the dvds in my friend's basement while tripping on acid back in the late 2000s.
This was a great show lol
The lonely Island jizz in my pants soooo riffed and stole it from these legends. They need and should get more credit! Love them
Bret and Jemaine borrowed from the Pet Shop Boys, it's ok.
@@dominysynclair it's from both but good call
rewatching this on quarantine
still good after such a long time!
I have seen this numerous times and just as amazed as if I was watching it for the first time again. The nailed it... and I LMAO at 2:17 ...someone needs to put that on a Tee Shirt!
I would really love to know if the Pet Shop Boys have heard this and if so, what they thought of it. It's just so brilliant, one of my favorite FOC songs.
Was thinking the same just this second
@@Robotoda2000 Yes bro
@@Robotoda2000 Why did you think he mentioned the Pet Shop Boys if not for that exact reason?
@@Robotoda2000 Why did you need to clarify to him that it was a west end girls parody? He very clearly already knew, hence him mentioning pet shop boys.
@@Robotoda2000 I’m only being condescending to you because you were condescending to him 😂
“You don’t know why you did you walk back across the street” I fucking lost it 😂😂😂
still gets stuck in my head every time i'm at 7-11 lol
"You pawned everything, everything you own, your toothbrush jar & a camera phone, you wanna sit down but you sold your chair, so you.....you just stand there.....You just stand therrrrre". Lol.
Ah, the good old HBO. They don't have shows like this anymore.
sure they dont...Now they only have artsy fartsy stuff for persons of culture like The night of....all style but zero substance
ruzino, youre absolutely right
Ruzinos .mhdenoxtws the night of was fantastic what you on about?
What about "the white lotus" ? "We are who we are"?
@@Ruzin08 euphoria...
It was awesome growing up with this show and music
You sold your chair, so you just stand there.. LMAO
The best line of the song
These guys ruled the Internet back in the day!!
I love the concept of someone really wanting to play the flute so badly they consider prostitution😂😂😂😂😂😂
"I was going to spit it out but I think I'll just eat it."
- we're poor man.
- we are poor, aren't we?
GENIUS
they nailed the satire on this one
They nail it every time. But here- yes definitely.
so you just stand there... YOU JUST STAND THERE!!
I have NO idea why this popped into my head. But it did. And it’s a great classic.
The thing is... staying home playing synths when you're unemployed is kinda what you do...
I highly suggest FOTC to as anyone's first show when into move the city
The city is alive...the city is exparnding.
You want to sit down but you sold you chair so you just stand theeeerrreeeee 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I miss this show.
Beautiful pet shop boys like song, really love the home organ drum machine! Remind me of when I as a poor student tried to make hits like this programming drum tracks on my commodere 0/vic20….
Holy s**t 50 brushes? I'd love to see that!
Only Bret can pull off the turtleneck look.
You need to check out John Linnell from They Might Be Giants. It's clear where the FOTC influences lie....
Turtlenecks are legendary!!!
Brit?
They sold their only chair but they didn't sell their synthesizers. They're real artists, huh. Lol
they sold their instruments in another episode
@@whatever4566 Oh, no.
My favorite show of all time.
What makes this funny is that they're talking about second hand underwear and pawning a toothbrush and yet they hold onto the vintage Minimoog which is worth $10000 at this point. I don't recognize the other one though.
Priorities.
ms2000 is the other one
h
its this way for every musician who stays at home to play synthesizer :)))
Rhombus Labs It's just an Minimoog, it's worth for about 2000 to 4000 $. Even then no one who owns a Minimoog would want to part ways with it. The other one is Korg MS2000, which is like the big brother of Microkorg. Worth less than 500 $.
I love this show.
It’s 2021 and I’m recently discovered this show. 😂
You're gonna love it!
First 6 episodes of season 1 are the best installments of any comedic series I've ever seen
The struggle is real
I laugh every time I see Jemaine realizes he is eating garbage.
Now I've got to listen to West End Girls 😄
The beginning of the song reminds me of the West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys
A tribute, I'd say. The mighty PSB have quite deliberately made themselves unparodyable.
get lost chumley
I knew it
Maybe it's just a coincidence.
Lee Hargreaves
Uh... missing the point much?
This is the best Pet Shop Boys parody entirely on accident
Love how it looks like a Dickens novel at the beginning 😂
It's funny seeing them get off at the Marcy stop in semi pre-gentrified Williamsburg. Man that area has changed since 2007.
It was plenty gentrified in 2007 too
The greatest Pet Shop Boys song they didn't write!
Love eugene mirman counting the beats to his line
"How come it was free?" and his facial expression LOL
Neon signs, hidden messages
Questions, answers...*fetishes?*
i like how it's so obvious he's using one of those soft 'paper' bags that they use in tv to keep the noise down
I had never heard west end girls by pet shop boys until today so I just realized this is parodying that so hard! Lmao
the flight of th2e chochords are litterally my favourite band by a mile
Here in 2021 and still good. Who's with me?
'You don't measure up to the expectation,when you're unemployed there's no vacation'
After watching this, I always wished I could sing in a robot voice: "Innercity pressure......"
"No one cares, no one sympathizes, you just stay home and play synthesizers"
Too late to this show. I spend each episode song trying to work out the 2-3 songs they’re parodying. This one was the most obvious and my favourite…. So far… not started season 2 yet
@ are you joking? This very song is a parody of west end girls by the pet shop boys. You know that right? Go watch it
@ I’ve literally just rewatched West End Girls. You have to TH-cam it! The video, the beat, the synth, the vocal style. Cmon my friend. Yes, flight of the conchords is original songs, but parodying the best of each genre. You surely understand that?
@ also are you confusing the meaning of parody? I’m not saying it’s a cover. Inner city pressure is clearly a ‘homage’ to west end girls
I love the old woman at 2:02
Ha Ha! Love it.
me too i keep playing that back. that was the best part and there are some really good parts in this song.
Grace Jones did the backing vocals and synths for the video. This is her cameo.
is that landlord Eugene mirman? great comedian!
cool beats
When you're unemployed there's no vacation.😆😆😆.
Genius is a rare commodity.
"50 brushes now"
Here in 2022 !!!